LOS ANGELES
Can you achieve sustainability and cooperation in a condensed urban landscape?
Imagine enjoying the conveniences of urban life while being part of a cooperative that embraces permaculture and that is slowly transforming into an urban farm in the heart of Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Eco-Village is a unique community that embodies democratic principles, promotes freedom of speech, and upholds human rights among other cooperation concepts. LAEV's a place where diversity is celebrated, and differences unite. This mini-documentary explores how the Eco-Village uses permaculture to create sustainable urban living while fostering a sense of community and social responsibility.
​You don't have to move to the country to start using sustainable principles and to be part of the landscape. An urban environment naturally requires participation and has the diversity and resources to create a city forest that provides shade, safety and economic opportunities.
Watch the documentary
​Produced and Directed
by Gabriela Rocha Caballero and Ryan Yoshimoto.
Music by
Yoshimoto Music.
Documentary Series.
COVOLV, The Los Angeles Eco-Village.
An interview with Lois Arkin. Lois is the founder and Executive Director of CRSP, the initial developer of the Los Angeles Eco-Village a model of urban sustainability and neighborhood cooperatives.
Lois provides public tours of L.A. Eco-Village, consults with intentional communities, ecovillages and cohousing communities on process and development issues, and gives public talks on Los Angeles Eco-Village for a diverse number of organizations, conferences, fairs, and festivals. She is also a passionate advocate for reducing auto ownership and dependency in Los Angeles and helping groups to transform their urban neighborhoods into more sustainable communities.
Our mission
is to inspire and ignite a global conversation about building a more sustainable future now.